Letter #1, September 12, 2024

I hope you had a fantastic summer!

Today it is September 12 which means it is exactly three months since I left my job and started a new life!

It's been a fun but pretty busy summer:

• I started my company and had to dive into how to setup VAT reporting, small business book-keeping etc.
• I built a studio which has become my favourite place in the house and where I now spend my working days.
• I figured out how to build a basic home page/blog that also supports handwritten content. My plan is to be able to add recordings and videos as well.
• My wife K and I travelled around Sweden in our camper van for almost two out of the three months. Mostly hiking, camping by the coast and visiting friends and family. We also spent a week in Croatia.
• The main reason for my life-style change was to accelerate learning.
  • I took two (remote) university summer courses from the camper-van. One was “Music Harmony and arranging” at Lunds University, the other was Literature (Classic Novels) at the Mittuniversitet.
  • Together they corresponded to full time studies which was perhaps a bit ambitious considering everything else I was up to. But it worked out well in the end and both are completed.
• Inspired by the literature course I did read more than usual this summer. The books are listed in this post (note that clicking on a book takes you to its Goodreads page, neat huh?): Summer Reading 2024

Now I look forward to a productive Autumn in my studio, to testrun this home-brewed notebook/blog and start filling it with some content from the new life.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think! How was your summer by the way?

/Jan